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Out of this cultural moment came the Girlboss, the result of start-up culture being refracted through the prism of fourth-wave feminism that was at the time also gathering pace. The term ‘girlboss’ itself was first propelled into public consciousness by American entrepreneur Sophia Amoruso, founder and former CEO of fast fashion brand Nasty Gal, wh

At present the #girlboss hashtag has been used over 22 million times

Is there any more damning evidence of male fragility than the fact that men with female partners who out-earn them are more likely to cheat, as sociologist Christin Munsch discovered in 2014?[5]

environment where women are treated far inferior than men’. In total Steel interviewed more than 100 current and former Vice employees,

in personal branding, cementing Amoruso’s image as the spunky outsider of the otherwise stuffy business world. She was relatable, and more unusually she was also cool, sporting

later). #Girlboss was nothing short of a cultural phenomenon, its publication marking the beginning of a shift that saw entrepreneurship and self-employment treated increasingly as a lifestyle choice.

Combine the generational plight of millennials with the gender-specific concerns most women face at work, and the emergency parachute for those caught in the middle of that particular Venn diagram starts to look a lot like a blush-pink bullet journal with the word HUSTLE stamped across it in gold foil. Indeed, the UK’s self-employment

and focuses only on the needs of a narrow subset of already privileged women; a version of feminism that is toothless and apolitical and fails to challenge the injustice of existing power structures, aiming only to insert women at the top of them. This type of feminism, commonly referred to as neoliberal feminism, tends to overlook the aspects of f

financial success can be romantic napalm, no matter how woke the object of their affection purports to be.